Hagerstown Regional Airport and Salisbury-Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport, which handle a small number of commercial flights, and Martin State Airport, Frederick Municipal Airport and Easton/Newnam Field would all be affected by the cuts.

LaHood said the sequester would chop more than $600 million from the Federal Aviation Administration budget, forcing mandatory furloughs for nearly 47,000 air transportation employees and the closure of more than 100 air traffic control towers nationwide.

The aviation assessment was requested by Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski, chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. "Sequester will cripple air transportation, causing ripple effects across the economy and costing us jobs we can't afford to lose," the senator said in a statement. "These are real impacts in real communities with real consequences."

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The Seattle CEO who raised salaries for all of his employees to a minimum of $70,000 a year, drawing accusations of socialism, now says he has fallen on hard times, the Washington Times reported Saturday.

It's a battle that goes all the way back to their college days at the University of Miami — defensive end Olivier Vernon vs. left tackle Jason Fox. Now that matchup is taking place at the NFL level with the Dolphins, and there's much more at stake.